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refresh inline w/FormAPI

LooseCannon

Hi All -

5.5.2/solaris

My situation:
In a DCT I'm populating a drop down w/an inline call to an XML file. Upon previous item selections the XML file is updated via a callServer to an CGI file.

The problem is that the DCT isn't updating the drop down w/the updated XML file.

I've tried to refresh the drop down by calling IWDatacapture.redraw(); and top.datacapture.refreshForm(); but neither seems to work.

How can I do this?

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iwovGraduate

Are you trying to refresh the list based on a selection on the DCT ? Inline might not be the right solution for that.
Inline is executed before the DCT is rendered.

Hope that helps.

LooseCannon

>>Are you trying to refresh the list based on a selection on the DCT ?
yes

>>Inline is executed before the DCT is rendered.
Are you saying that an inline can only get executed when the DCT is loaded?

JonathonG

Correct, an inline is only executed when the template loads. You can use FormAPI methods for updating the items in a drop-down as a result of your callServer. There are examples of this in the FormAPI examples directory.

Jonathon
Interwoven Architecture Consultant

iwovGraduate

Yes. You should consider using FormAPI.

LooseCannon

...ultimately I was trying to find out if I could programmatically execute an inline. It's disappointing that this can't be done.
Thanks for the responses.

Migrateduser

You can use formAPI callServer to execute a CGI or JSP on the server. But it probably wouldn't be the same inline, it would return JavaScript that would do whatever the inline was originally intended to do (populate select list, etc.). Both the inline and the CGI/JSP could use the same data, just return it differently.